mmm, drop C#1 on a guitar Now time to hear the instumental version of this song. Also, a caveat with these VST plugins: they sometimes like to cut out during live performance on my end. Now, let's see how the guitars and bass play with each other. The kick drum is sidechained to the bass channel, with Fruity Limiter ducking the bass. Now, let's hear how the bassline and drums work together. I prefer Sytrus since it's been in FL Studio forever and it's pretty simple. The MIDI is basically ripped straight from the "Nowhere Near" demo project. EQ + Limiting: OFF EQ + Limiting: ON So here's the melody section. You can hear the effect of how well EQing and using Fruity Limiter is on making the drums sound more decent. To get these drums to sound THICC, only basic EQing was used, along with Fruity Limiter to control the roominess. Additional cymbals are from the included samples in FL Studio. Here's the exciting part: drums The drums are from Chango Studio's FOP Kit, with all the samples loaded into FPC for granular control. I layer all the included versions of Texas Grind to achieve this. Here's the bass DI showing how there is already some grit that helps with the distortion later on. Additionally there are no palm-mute articulations, so to simulate these, I use staccato as shown here.
Sadly, it only has one octave of sampled notes, which hampers what kind of notes can be played You can hear that it's resampling the lowest note in order to play F.
For the guitars, I'm using Shreddage II and Pod Farm 2 for the amp sim To get Shreddage to play drop C#1, the pitch *** was set to -6 semitones Here is what the guitar DI sounds like by itself. So let's start with how the guitars sound. A detailed breakdown of the FX and settings used to get to this mix will come in a later video. In this video, I'm just going to break down the individual instruments to show how I've mixed them. For those familiar with the demo projects in FL Studio, you'll recognize the Blake Reary vocals. So what we have here is a small song demonstrating how I mix metal with FL Studio. Hey there! You read the description! Nice.